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DESKTOP 3D PRINTER User Guide MD-16 MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD...
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Legal Statement Shenzhen MINGDA Technology Co., Ltd, all rights reserved. It won't be informed if the information in this article was changed in the future. MINGDA doesn't made any type of guarantee about this information, including but not limited to marketability...
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com 1 Brief Introduction MD Series Industrial 3D Printers adhere to the design concept of the simple to the extreme. It can print product quickly and easily, even if you've never used a 3D Printer. The printer prints the model with PLA or ABS, so the products will be strong and durable.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com printer. Do not damage, cut or repair the power cord. Damaged power cords present a risk of fire or electric shock. Please replace the damaged power cord with a quality-certified power cord. Do not allow metal or liquid to come into the printer and contact with the internal parts of the printer.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com and 3D printer read the .gcode document and print the raw filament into a 3D product. Cura is a slicing software that runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10. The product size and print size of MD series 3D printer are as follows.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com 3 Installation Install Machinery Take Out the Machine,can not pull the optical axis inside the machine, otherwise it will cause deformation of the optical axis. Install the Filament holder Note: Use the M3 screw, which Plugged in...
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com 3. About 2 minutes heating,Gently take out the model with the scraper knife. Paste the Masking Tape Remove the broken tapes and paste new ones, pay attention not to overlap and too large clearance.(If the tape is not broken, it can be...
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com 3. When the temperature rises to 200° C, press the filament at the entrance of shrapnel, insert the filament, the filament squeezing down, if the filament is melted and flow out from nozzle, and the filament is inserted successfully.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com Fine Tune the Printing Platform 1. let the hot bed rose to maximum height and Cancel the motor lock, then the printing head can be lightly pushed to everywhere by hand. It can be moved by Manual Control.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com ( When printing bottom layer, Observe the print nozzle. If the filament can not pasted on the hotbed, you need to Adjusting nut counter clockwise. If the tape was broken, you need to Adjust the nut clockwise.
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com 1.2 Value input Such as input Printer Head and Heating Bed Temperature degree value, pls write and confirm”OK”. 2. Application : Pre-heating build plate ,Manual, Auto manual, update, Fan and Return. 2.1 Auto calibrating: Without installation 2.2 Update.
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com is move “X/Y/Z” move distance and speed. is Direction: move toward Original Point, move away from Original point. (The Original Point located at the Left Front corner) * Pls select X、Y or Z Axis first,Then click to move Ruturn to the Original point.
You can get the latest installation software in two ways: 1. Install from the included SD card 2. Download directly from MINGDA official website http://www.md-3d.com/index.php?s=/products/software.html Install the Printing Software (take Cura as an example) ) 1.
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com Here we need to wait few minutes install the program. - 13 -...
1) Start Cura 2) Click on "machine" - "add new machine." 3) Take “MD-16” as an example, set as follows. The "model name" can be arbitrarily set, for example, set to "MD-16", the width is set to 160 mm, the depth is set to 160 mm, and the height is set to 160 mm. The nozzle...
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com size is set to 0.4mm, select the hot bed, do not select the platform center. - 15 -...
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If the nozzle is 0.4mm, the recommended wall thickness is 1.2. 3) Enable Retraction: MINGDA recommended to select. 4) Bottom /Top Thickness: The wall thickness above and below the model is generally an integral multiple of the layer thickness.
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com 11) Diameter: The filament supplied is 1.75mm. 12) Flow: Default 100. 3. Advanced Setup: 1) Nozzle Size: Nozzle diameter is generally 0.4mm. If you customize other nozzle sizes, fill in here. The nozzle size does not affect the accuracy of the layer thickness and only affects the minimum print detail.
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com to be better combined. 8) Travel Speed: The speed of movement when not printing. The recommended setting is 80. 9) Bottom Layer Speed: The first layer speed, recommend PLA setting 30, ABS setting 20. 10) Infill speed: the speed of filling the model, Setting it to 0 will use the global speed.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com Open STL File with Cura Click “File” –“Load model file”- double click stl format documents. Model rotation, scaling, mirroring with Cura 1. Model Rotation 1) Click on the model and the rotation, zoom, and mirror icons will appear in the lower left corner of the software window.
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com appropriate to determine the size of 3 times, change the ratio to 3.0. Tips: The "lock" icon on the right side of "Uniform Scale" indicates whether the XYZ axis direction ratio is locked. If the icon is clicked, the unlock state is...
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com Transfer stl Model into gcode Document with Cura 1. Insert the SD card, and establish a folder named "GCODE" first. 2. Click “file” – “save GCode”. 3. Set GCODE directory in SD card. click “save” .(the file name should not be too long) 4.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com Printing Parts 1. Stick the tape to the printing platform. 2. Insert the SD card. 3. Reset the Z axis and move the printing head to check the distance between the nozzle and platform. 4.Preheat the head and bed, check whether it feed smoothly.
MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com Power Outages If want to cut off the printer power, please press the power button again. You could do it at anytime, it will not damage the printer. And there is no need to operate any other steps. If you do it when printer is making parts, it will not finish the current printing task.
A new screw tube and print nozzle need to be replaced at this time. You can contact MINGDA for related videos. 1. Cut off the printer power completely. 2. Use sleeve to twist down the nozzle.
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MINGDA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD www.md-3d.com 10 Quality Assurance MINGDA Workshop has developed a strict producing and testing processes from every component to the assembled 3D printer, tested with sophisticated detection tools. Each machine before deliveried out, must go through a dozen testing procedures, high temperature, noise, extreme wall thickness , Print speed, cantilever speed, angle test and more.
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